[Portfolio] [DG: Teaching & Learning] REMINDER > Today's Sakai Teaching and Learning Call

Wed Aug 14 12:17:26 PDT 2013

Hi Josh,

From today's meeting it sounded like the immediate "task" requested is to get everyone to comment on the T&L Capability Review Process. Is that correct?
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/QwzzB 

We had discussion on three possible "streams". One stream is a high level, strategic view of Sakai, another is best practices in using the tools. The Capability Review Process is focused on incremental improvements, practical stuff, to the current tool set. Does that sound about right? The other two are important as well, just we need someplace to start. 

Also, there seemed to be consensus to try out applying the Capability Review Process to the Lessons tool first so we can learn from that, and then we might look at the state of other tools and community needs (Blog tool, Wiki tool, Assignments 1 vs 2, Gradebook 1 vs 2 , etc).

My take-aways from the meeting.

Cheers,
Neal

Neal Caidin
Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
neal.caidin at apereo.org
Skype: nealkdin
Twitter: ncaidin

On Aug 14, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Josh Baron <Josh.Baron at marist.edu> wrote:

> As a reminder, we will be starting up our weekly Teaching and Learning call in about 30 minutes at 2 PM Eastern Time (New York).  Dial-in information is below. 
> 
> Last week I posted an update email in an attempt to summarize where our collective thinking over the past two months as lead us and to outline what I see as an emerging plan for conducting T&L Capability Reviews on key Sakai CLE functionality with the work on Lesson Builder being the first example of how we might engage in such work.  My post on this is below. 
> 
> At the same time that we've been making good progress on this work, there have been continued discussions on how we might collaborate with the larger CLE community on developing a longer-term vision for where Sakai is headed over the next few years.  I'm personally interested in talking about how we might engage in these different efforts in parallel but with the size of the group involved right now I'm not sure how to best proceed and thus would like to discuss this on the call today if possible. 
> 
> Finally, with semesters starting up in North America I'm anticipating that we'll all be "distracted" a bit for the next couple of weeks.  We may wish to map out a realistic call/work plan for this time period so that we don't loose the current momentum. 
> 
> Josh 
> 
> CONFERENCE CALL DIAL-IN INFORMATION 
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> 
> Colleagues, 
> 
> I wanted to report out on the Sakai Teaching and Learning call that was held today as the group is starting to move towards an actionable plan and it would be very useful to get input from a broad cross section of the community.  I also know that not everyone who has been on the prior calls was available today and thus wanted to make them aware of the discussion. 
> 
> After a series of conference calls following the Open Apereo conference (see https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/BwrzB), the Sakai Teaching and Learning Group has begun to develop plans to engage in a process to review the Lesson Builder/Lessons tool being developed by Rutgers University (and others) as means to identify new capabilities and new user interface designs that would enhance its use from a teaching and learning perspective.  Our hope is that this process, once matured, could become a model for work with other Sakai tools and capabilities as well as means to engage in longer-term strategic planning for the product.  Central to this work is the commitment that once new capabilities and designs are identified, that the group would work to engage institutional decision makers as means to help find the resources needed to support the related development effort. 
> 
> Over the past couple of weeks there has been an effort to engage in a preliminary effort  to review the Lesson Builder/Lessons tool which has been lead by Marilyn Dispensa and Rob Fentress as well as several others.  Some of the outcomes of this work are documented at: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PED/Lessons+Tool%3A+Best+Practices+and+Suggestions.  At the same time, the group has identified the need to also engage in a usability review and wish to make this part of the review process as well.  Based on this preliminary work and discussions, the Teaching and Learning group is now starting to draft a document that would outline how we might engage in a review process. 
> 
> You can find a draft T&L Capability Review Process document at: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/QwzzB 
> 
> We are encouraging everyone to look at this draft and either add to it or post comments as means of providing feedback.  Our hope is to complete the process document in the next 1-2 weeks and then engage in the review effort more formally.  As we start up the more formal review process we will be rescheduling our calls as we know there are folks interested in participating who cannot make the current call schedule. 
> 
> Josh 
> 
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